Welp guys he did it. The madman finally dropped the hard R.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

you guys are all right, don't watch the ogre battle video tomorrow

@Sarentor

Жыл бұрын

Arc the Retarc amirite

How does it feel to have lived long enough to watch all your favorite franchises go down in flames?

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

Feels great. :)

@Yixdy

Жыл бұрын

Feels good, actually. If only it were true, and they didn't constantly resurrect long dead "intellectual properties" for those sweet sweet nostalgia-bux™

Best thing about Arc the Lad ending is that it might finally grow into Arc the Man.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

i don't know if that's even possibur

Ah yes, the "Breath of Fire 6 " of the Arc franchise

@rune9055

Жыл бұрын

I know right! I wonder how long before we hear they're shutting it down.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

I call it "Arc's on Fire".

The fact that no one even bothered to rip the game for its remastered OST before the servers shut down is also one hell of a way for this series to end on a whimper Masahiro Andoh's work didn't deserve this ending man T_T

Truly a masterpiece of a series

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

The game was rigged from the start.

Everytime casp uploads an arc the lad vid, my lad hardens up

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

damn shame we've run out of Arcs. you're gonna need a new fetish, my boy.

What a depressing way for a series to go out, even if most of the entries were mid, no series deserves to end like this.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

and it keeps happening. the same story as Breath of Fire, and probably many more. very sad, many such cases

@DanielSantosAnalysis

Жыл бұрын

@@Caspicum Don't even remind me about Breath of Fire, that hurts way more since that's a series I grew up with. It also stings a bit more knowing that Capcom is releasing banger after banger nowadays, but they've pretty much forgotten the series.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

That's what's pissing me off too. I'm not a fan of sequel begging or remake/remaster begging, I'm perfectly fine with a series ending, and being 'lost' to time, but Capcom are having a renaissance and completely ignoring their history with JRPGs. It doesn't even have to be Breath of Fire, just give me some cool JRPGs bro.

@ShadowWolfRising

Жыл бұрын

@@Caspicum Like a new Command Mission.

Maybe the arcs was the friends we made along the way

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

the TRUE arc was the platinum-tier 6-star friends we paid for along the way.

This truly was the RPG series of all time

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

Even then, the 'RPG' part got fuckled.

Boltrend localizing was already a sign the gacha wouldn't last long, but the jp version announcing EoS like a week after the English was announced didn't help. The early story was eh, and just used plot to setup a gacha existing but later on it got decent. They retconned everything after arc 2 but recontextualized the arc 3 characters in arc 2's world in a nice way. I played from launch until the 2nd ranking event in global and quit since the top rewards were a fully awakened elc you couldn't get any other way at the time and the top places were all cheaters. Hopefully Japan is over the "sudden big news about dead 20 year old game series turns out to be a gacha" they've been on for the last decade

3:45 As someone with legit ADHD and diagnosed and all that and a really crappy life from the start because of it, I can just say that not even we would enjoy any stuff like this (not that I can speak for everyone, ofc). I really miss the time where Arc: Twilight of the Spirits released, ugh x-x I also hope that joke wasn't meant to in any way make a joke of ADHD and what comes with the condition (and I'm not talking about any hyperactivity nor inattentiveness here - ADHD, sadly, comes with a ton more; Executive Dysfunction and Emotional Dysregulation hold my beer, basically; like, the biggest issue is that everything related to executive function (ALL the stuff) is affected. And it's a nightmare. If it's more of a nightmare than what became of the Arc series, though, I can't say :) In any case, tyvm for those videos! Subscribed and gonna check out way more in the future and excited to watch the Twilight of the Spirits one in the future. Keep up the good work and well-deserved 33k subscribers also!

@Caspicum

10 ай бұрын

That was more jabbing at the people who say they have ADHD and are never formally diagonsed, the internet ailments. I know most of our short attention spans, and addictive personality traits is more of a monkey brain thing, and due to a lack of discipline and self-awareness, we're all guilty of it to some degree, regardless of what we do or don't have. Soldier on, brother. You're doing what a lot of people couldn't. I appreciate the comment!

You've been on a roll lately, thanks for the videos!

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the praise! It helps that people are digging it!

Okayu in the vid? Truly a man of culture.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

I WOULD LIKE TO HEADPAT THE CAT

The mad lad! Posting two videos so close together!

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

I will suffer for internet brownie points.

yess finally just got done rewatching all ya vids keep em coming (don’t rush tho)

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

Damn, that's some effort. I'm sorry for the pain I inflicted.

The gut microbiome line had me in a fit LMAO

@Caspicum

10 ай бұрын

Thanks, it was cathartic!

Two videos back to back? be still my heart

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

idk if it'll ever happen again but I like to keep people guessing!

I wasn't expecting this content drop for another 6 months

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

It's been ready since January, otherwise it may have been another 6 months :^)

Using Okayu, I see.. very cultured😎 Funny how 2 game series with hot demi human ladies (Katt & Delma) ended in mobile game catastrophe. This is depressing :crying emoji:

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

There's a lot of weird parallels between Breath of Fire and Arc, specifically how there's 6 core games, with the final being a mobile title. The fifth games of each series were polarising and effectively killed the franchises for over a decade with a harsh direction shift. I wonder if it's just a classic JRPG curse?

@nekokitkatlongassname

Жыл бұрын

@@Caspicum it should've hit Final Fantasy.. not Breath of Fire!

He was a lad all along

At least Kukuru fanarts are going strong still :^)

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

is that true please direct me to where i can enjoy this

@MadJak91

Жыл бұрын

Various -booru image sites. It is real :^)

Arc the Lad, RIP BOZO

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

where were you when I needed a title?

I totally forgot I had played this until I saw Arc getting slapped. Then I remember how I was slapped by the devs for having any expectations of the series coming back.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

You'll buy the remasters though right? :^)

@evandigga

Жыл бұрын

@@Caspicum I think I'm cursed to buy every remaster to come out. I always hope it'll show interest in a revival. I'm a hopeless wreck in that regard. And every other regard.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

i was like you, but getting burnt by the pre-patched Chrono Trigger and then the Grandia HD remasters killed it for me. i also bought star ocean 4 for some reason... disgusting.

@evandigga

Жыл бұрын

@@Caspicum I too bought Star Ocean 4 on my pc after playing half of it on the 360 ages ago. I'm trapped by nostalgia and I can't escape!

My favorite part of this video was the Disgaea clip~

okay, THIS is the betrayal in the arc the lad series.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

top 10 biggest jrpg betrayals of all time (3am gone sensual)

@shadowwwwwwwwwww

Жыл бұрын

@@Caspicum not clickbait

7 seconds in and the writing is comedy gold

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

ty ty. maybe i should go off the rails more often

Congratulations on putting the series to rest Casp! 👏 Now enjoy your rest because those last 2 were very painful.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

I've become addicted to horrible games. Now that AVGN has dropped off, and doesn't have hair, I think it's time that me, a be-haired freak take up the mantle.

@Ragefat

Жыл бұрын

James is bald? I guess being that angry can't be good for the hair, so take care of yours if you plan to follow the steps then.

Arc The Dead. RIP. I'd forgive it most things for Twilight of the Spirits, tho.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

tru tru. i don't even hold arc 3 against it

I like world flipper it's pretty good

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

Pinball? PINBALL? Look, at least pinball is fun in almost every context. There are some things you can't mobilify.

@nekonekopanicnekonekopanic7335

Жыл бұрын

@@Caspicum exactly the only mobile game I play.

Don't worry this might not be the last Arc game. Maybe this video's extreme popularity will bring Arc the Lad back in the form of a second gacha game that has even more expensive loot boxes. We can only hope.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

If this video gets anywhere near popular, I will shit a brick. low key hoping it'll fizzle out so I can protect my sphincter

The most disappointing thing about Arc R to me was during the super limited beta test, I worked with others to supply a metric fuck ton of QA/localization work on making the Engrish into reasonably decent English and literally none of it was fixed. Six months, zero fixes. Kind of killed all my belief the company gave much care.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

to be fair, that's likely just the nature of a mobile product. It's not made to be a 'good' game, it's made to get you hooked and syphon your cash. damn shame

Yugioh Master Duel can be played completely for free and you can get a top tier deck. You don't even have to dig through packs for specific cards. My phone is also too old to play the game so I literally can only play it on my pc.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

Card games were the OG gacha shit. I remember dropping $8 for boosters trying to get useable things and it never happened. now i don't even see cardboard as a useable material, it's just gacha to me. i ship all my goods and wares in plastic, like a real endocrine disruptor.

1500? Jesus christ, thats the equivalent of playing an MMO for 500 hours and saying its garbage.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

i gotta burn that crypto wealth somehow

i played it until the first evil arc boss

3:43 😂

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

This was a cathartic video ngl

This is like doing a video even for Breath of Fire 6... Oh wait, you already did

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

still hurts :(

Upside, you don't have to worry about some corpo using your corpse to milk fans. At least for another 15-20 years....

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

I think it's coming sooner than we think, unfortunately. We're in peak remaster territory.

that was fast

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

I am prepared! I didn't spend two months of no uploads doing nothing!

Arc didn't deserve this.

so basically just look up the ost on here instead

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

yes! It's not amazing, but it's passable

I doubt this franchise would've ever got popular in general.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's one of those series where outside of Arc 2, Twilight, and maybe 3, it never really had a chance. Even the best games are pretty mid, and none of the characters are super memorable, there's not a lot to get hooked on. Say what you will about FIle Fancy, but it's got character, which is what people get addicted to.

Phones actually have the best versions of some older dragon quest games

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

Best versions? Man, the SNES and GBC remakes are so premo though, they're legit better than those?

@djblaklite

Жыл бұрын

@@Caspicum yup. mostly because theyre easily playable. its the only way ive been able to experience DQ 1-6 (i dont think i like 6 tho)

@anon6181

Жыл бұрын

@@Caspicuma good example is DQ IV. The mobile version has restored content that's not available in any other english version of the game

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

It'd have to be really good content to justify me using a touch screen. Surely there're hacks for console versions that restore the content?

@anon6181

Жыл бұрын

@@Caspicum have you played DQV? One of my favourite features in that game was talking to my party members and monsters for some character specific flavour text after every little thing that happens, or even in each area of the game. Only the phone version of DQ IV has that in English Its not critical to the game or anything but its a big part of why I loved V so much.

could always be worse that's the good side

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

It could be End of Darkness!

watch as they announce a new game immediately just because you're denouncing the franchise as dead

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

I actually called this in my Arc 3 video, I said something like "series remake coming in 2023." so look forward to that.

@jimdandy6408

Жыл бұрын

@@Caspicum It could happen. I mean, fuckin' Wild Arms AND Shadow Hearts are getting "spiritual successors." I don't know if I like the look of them, but they're happening.

Oh no they went for a mobile gacha...

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

We all thought they wouldn't, and that was our fault.

Mobile characters looking like FF6 ones? I think they look more like the 3D designs in the FF3 remake for Nintendo DS.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

I mean the 2D mobile games basically aping FF6, but yeah the 3D ones look like My Sims which is not too far removed from the 3D FF DS games.

I'm so happy I put my mobile gaming behind me.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

bro i played a few and very quickly realised what I was in for. I come from the old school mobile gaming days too, where you'd buy a game for $5 and own the entire thing. Symbian OSes on old nokia phones had some really premo shit and I wish I could emulate it somehow.

kinda want to trick you into reviewing honkai impact

If you spent 1500 on a mobile game, I think the problem might not entirely be the games fault, it's really not hard to not spend money on a mobile game.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

nah it's 100% the game's fault. i can never be at fault because i am not an evil corporation. my world view is very intelligent.

@Clancyism

Жыл бұрын

@@Caspicum Actually, I wanna apologize for how aggressive my comment reads in hindsight. It's a big character flaw I have that I really wish I could stop doing. I was actually more worried that you might be susceptible to a gambling addiction then actually trying to do anything that would somewhat defend micro-transaction practices.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

You're good, homie. I don't take anything too seriously, we're all just here to have fun. You could post the most offensive, scathing comment and I wouldn't take it personally. Honestly, it'd probably give me a chuckle, I love that shit. Frankly, the more slurs you can fit in without getting filtered, the better. I'd never defend micro-transactions, but I don't want to be one of those guys who pretends it's 100% corporations' faults for tapping a market. Micro transactions are scummy stuff, but people pay for them, and we can't exactly shame them or outlaw them into stopping. I mean, we can try, but whenever I hear moral arguments, my brain just shuts off, so I assume people with the addiction themselves are probably the same. Logic has always lost to an addictive mindset. Best you can do is try to point to the absurdity of all it, and hope people wake up before they lose it all. Same idea with other destructive behaviours and addictions. As long as people can kick it before it completely ruins their lives, it's more of a learning moment than a royal fuck up. Everyone's got a vice, they just gotta learn to cage the beast. I appreciate you're passionate about stuff though, never let anyone take that passion from you, brother.

Wait did you seriously drop $1500 on this game? If that was just for the benefit of this video, then that is some serious dedication

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

I won't deny it, but I won't say I went bankrupt as a result either.

$1500?! Well now whos the dreamwhale?ahaahaaaa sub to dreamwhale!

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

liam wishes he could blow 1500 on a defunct mobile game

But atleast it's still better than End of Darkness.... right?

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

God, that is a really tough call...

This looks really low quality compared to Langrisser M. And Langrisser M is a typical mobile skinner box, but not as bad as some games because you can max out every hero in 3 months with no gacha. But even with good gameplay and music, you are still playing a mobile skinner box p2w. Worth playing if you know what you are getting into.

Arc the Lad truly was a mistake past the first two games. No amount of "racism handled well" from Twilight of the Spirits can change that.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

but I'd give it all up for a sniff of Paulette's armpits...

I wish all those developers could just remake the old games. Instead of giving us this mobile crap.😢 But anyway, I'm glad you showed this off. Now I really wanna go back and play. The PlayStation one games. Never forget the Classics.✌️✌️

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

I did predict a remaster in 2023 in my Arc 3 video... Let's see if it comes true :^)

@ShadowWolfRising

Жыл бұрын

@@Caspicum Wouldn't be the weirdest thing to happen given Square. And if that leak is true, a Persona 3 Remake (And I mean REMAKE.) and a probably GAAS Jet Set Radio. And possibly Skies of Arcadia remaster.

Meh, compared to the trauma of Breath of Fire 6, this is worth little more than a gloomy shrug of the shoulders.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

Breath of Fire 6 certainly hurt more, but this was like a warm nail that went straight through the skin, and you only realised because you looked back. Never look back.

I played god on the snes and gotta say, better than earthbound. Just throwing the game your way since it seems like a game that might be up your alley and has almost no fanbase/barely any presence on youtube so you wouldnt actually offend anyone. And you can say something controversial about playing god so thats a plus

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

I've been looking at that for a while now, I'll have to give it a play.

@attackofthecopyrightbots

Жыл бұрын

@@Caspicum Honestly its got the craziest sht I've ever seen in any game from that era. Theres a reason it never got localized. Combats awful though

Arc the lad R much of a bad thing

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

THIS GAME MAKES ME SO R

If we petition Capcom we can convince them to bring back Arc the Lad to it's former glory! #WeNeedAnArcTheLadSequel

@elementalcc4991

Жыл бұрын

No we don't.

@DreamWhale

Жыл бұрын

@@elementalcc4991 fake fan

@raptorskilltor4554

Жыл бұрын

And maybe in a separate petition we could get a proper breath of fire game

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

Arc the Lad (for) R(eal this time).

@deejay3297

Жыл бұрын

Bring back breath of fire 6!! # ourcancer

You could have auto-played this video by making it ten seconds of just: "It's mobile gatcha shit" to quickly see those sweet views and likes go up! Jokes aside this is such a shame...

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

It's what it deserves, honestly.

Octopath Traveler CotC and Another Eden are actually pretty good, especially Another Eden, in which the Gacha is completely optional as the free characters are pretty damn powerful. CotC has a bit more nefarious Gacha elements and clearly wants you to spend money but the gameplay is super fun, The story is surprisingly dark, and the music is out of this world good, just absolutely banger after banger.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

There's just something about mobile games that feels shitty and I can't enjoy them. That said, I don't really like the actual Octopath games either, so I'd imagine a mobile version would be much the same. The way they're designed is so exploitative, even if you're not feeding it notes, it's still designed to get your brain addicted to the flashing lights and colours. More and more traditional games are going that way these days, but it's still not even close, mobile shit is a different level.

@mac9365

Жыл бұрын

@@Caspicum CotC is very different from Octopath, the battle system is set for 8 party members at once and the Story structure is different. I think it's a bit short minded to hate on games solely for being on Mobile or f2p. Again, imo Another Eden is the best mobile game I have ever played with a story by Masato Kato who is an absolute legend of the JRPG industry. It completely broke the stigma I had against mobile gaming and if it got rid of the Gacha (which like I said is pretty much optional) and was sold normally I think it would be more widely loved.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

idk man, it's just like MMOs to me. They're built from the ground up to be this specific thing, and I don't like the foundation they're working from. I don't think they're driving enough cement pilons into the ground, you know? The best MMO or mobile game is still just an MMO or a mobile game to me. Plus, i hate touch screens, which is an interfacing issue I can't overcome with mobile stuff. I dug old school mobile games when they had buttons, but idk man i got big thumbs

@mac9365

Жыл бұрын

@@Caspicum this feels like trying to explain Tik Tok to a boomer ngl. The argument you just made makes so little sense, especially the comparison to MMOs. The reason one may not like an MMO is because they are always massive multiplayer experiences. Mobile gaming is not a genre, it's a medium, they could literally be almost anything. The buttons complaint is fair but as someone who is 6'4 with big greasy bear paws I have never had even the slightest discomfort with CotC or AE, or honestly any of the better mobile experiences, they are designed to be as streamlined and easy to control as possible. Also a great deal of them are on Steam now, including Another Eden! You can play what you want but to put down all these amazing experiences just cuz "mobile game bad" is extremely disappointing.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

to be fair, tik tok is also garbage and melts your brain. Chinese spyware that influences idiots to do and believe idiot things and aides in the ever-decreasing attention span and IQ. Fundamentally, if you use it as a platform, everything on it adheres to a ruleset and standards that I fundamentally dislike, so even if I find gold on there, it's still within this framework that I despise, which is gonna taint my opinion. That's basically how I feel about mobile games. I hate touch screens, my thumbs have to cover a chunk of the viewing window for me to interact with the game, which I don't like. Touch screens are not as accurate, as a button press has two states. On and off. Touch screens have many more things to factor in and aren't precise. Fundamentally, these games, particularly the free ones, are designed with monetization principals in mind, where a paid experience *generally* isn't. I know that's becoming less and less true, with full-priced console games featuring micro-transactions and there are some paid mobile games, and more power to them, but this is also why I barely play games after the year 2007. They are fundamentally different, and as a result, I find it harder to enjoy them. In the case of mobile games, I see what they're doing and how they're using exploitative practices to market themselves and get people into a new way of thinking, it's a fundamentally different way to deliver a piece of media to a player. Thus, mobile game bad. I like old mobile games on Symbian OSes, like there was some dinky Baldur's Gate game, and there used to even be ports of GBA games and stuff to phones like the N-Gage, they were okay. I don't doubt there're a couple good, modern mobile games, but that's what, 0.0001% of the market? Exceptions don't invalidate the rule.

I not only have never played a gacha game, I haven't played mobile game period. Damn I'm good.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

You're some kind of god king. stay strong. You can defeat the greed!

Another Eden roped me in with the Chrono Cross crossover. I hope this isn’t what the golden age of jrpg's is relegated to now.

@KopperNeoman

Жыл бұрын

With that ESG money running dry, gacha crap is the only way Diverse Equitable and Inclusive companies can make money.

@codyfelts9531

Жыл бұрын

@@KopperNeoman Ahh, another member of the anti wokeness in entertainment resistance. Well met.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

I saw that, but wasn't tempted to try it. I know what's at the end of trying a mobile game, and it never ends well, no matter how many Chronos you slap in there.

listen i like arc but come on why would you pay for this

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

I'm convinced I can DSP myself and become indestructible, and that starts by spending money on mobile games. the next step is streaming and head-rolling :^)

Masterduel isn't gacha... what's wrong with gacha bro....

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

*NO*

Why do all the gacha RPGs look like either FF6 or MySims? because all these games are build on top of a generic Unity template and all they have to do is make the character models and import them into the game and it just so happen that chibi 3D or 2D models are the quickest and cheapest to make. Alternatively, you could go the Genshin route and make 3 generic 3D character models (male, female and loli) and just dress them up differently, adjust their body proportions accordingly, maybe give them different hair and pray the thirsty weebs don't notice they all have the same face.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

Same face has been an established fundamental since at least the 80s, they just found a way to hyper-monetize it. i literally can't tell a lot of shonen shit apart when they get near the end. naruto, bleach, one piece, all victims to same face. i'm sure other properties exist but who has the time?

this shit looks like fire emblem heroes but worse

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

which is saying something

Partially why I never play f2p.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

*based*

Mobile gatcha game....that auto plays itself? Good hell. I'd rather stub my toe on the nearest door frame.

I know paying for gacha is bad but... mogu mogu

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

very based, onigirya bro

More videos please, Daddy.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

sure but now you've gotta wait. :^)

Just NIAP a free gacha game you like and you won't lose any money. It's not that hard.

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

alternatively, a bot farm is profitable.

I don't think gatcha gamers would feel bad about themselves if you spent money on the last week of life support for this game. Just saying

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

Gacha enablers should feel bad, ngl

You’re posting faster than I can come up with clever comments. 🥲

@Caspicum

Жыл бұрын

Don't worry, you've got at least two more weeks

Very sad cash grab 🥲